SAMOURAÏ COOP
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About

A collective laboratory, since 2016.

For 10 years we have imagined, experimented with, studied and built the foundations of a new generation of social and distributed organisations — at the crossroads of technology, art and society.

Our rejection of modern marketing methods and our dissatisfaction with conventional organisational models led us to a distinct identity: independent, rigorous and sustainable, grounded in rare and complementary fields of expertise.

10
years since 2016
500+
projects
200+
clients
6
products in the catalogue

The model

The people who do the work own the company.

Samouraï Coop is a SCOP — a French worker cooperative, registered in Paris since 2017. It is a legal form, not a marketing line, and it has one consequence worth stating plainly: the people who shoot the films and write the code hold the company, and decide together how it is run.

Over the years the coop structured itself around several hubs — research, development, creation, production and auditing — while preserving a horizontal governance true to its founding spirit: freedom, rigour, solidarity and curiosity.

Technologies

R&D on distributed governance, cryptography, consensus and peer-to-peer systems. Open-source applications and tools — from an operating system for communities to a multi-signature wallet adopted across the Cosmos ecosystem.

Production & creation

Films, documentaries, design, UX and educational content — including Samouraï Grants, a creative fund supporting independent documentary filmmakers, whose works are later shown at our Paris event, the Hyper Hacktive Festival. Motion design, visual identity and event production. Independent media: samourai.tv.

  1. 2016The crew starts shooting
  2. 2017The SCOP is founded in Paris
  3. Today500+ projects · 6 products · 3 crews

“We’re building the mix between a production company, a music label, a creators’ coop that invites its community, and an artist & hackers management agency that makes them autonomous from itself. And one day, we will totally decentralize.”

Y&Z — founders

But our best film is always the next one.

Athlete mid-effort, shot on location.
Espoirs — production still
A hooded figure before a fresco-covered wall.
The Underground Sistine Chapel — production still
Three crew members framing a shot on a camera stabilizer.
On set — camera crew
A broadcast control desk with multiple video feeds on screen.
Control room — live broadcast
Four crew members on location.
The crew — on location
Colorful building fronts scouted on location.
Location scouting
A four-person panel discussion on stage, in front of a "Funding the Commons" banner.
Funding the Commons, Buenos Aires — panel discussion
A large event tent with a speaker presenting to a seated audience.
Funding the Commons, Buenos Aires — the venue
A panelist speaking into a microphone on stage.
Funding the Commons, Buenos Aires — on stage
A panelist speaking, with a presentation slide visible on the screen behind her.
Funding the Commons, Buenos Aires — panel discussion
A speaker mid-gesture while addressing the room.
Funding the Commons, Buenos Aires — on stage
An attendee in a "Funding the Commons" t-shirt, mid-conversation.
Funding the Commons, Buenos Aires

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The crew

One team, several expert crews.

“We are different, and enjoy it. We are filmmakers, artists, designers, hackers, developers, and whatever our tools, we’re all united to share knowledge with people, connect cultures, explode boxes and borders, create bridges between people, opening up new perceptions.”

— from the Samouraï Coop manifesto

34 people

  • Lead

    Yohann GrignouFilm Director (Co-Founder)Chief Post-Production OfficerLead Media CrewCo-founder — directed Best Tricks, Gift and Breathe.Film crew

  • Lead

    zôÖmaFounder & Paris P2P Festival founderCore Researcher & Tech LeadFounder — leads Zenao, Paris P2P and Teritori.Film crew, Engineering
  • Fanny ZammiteAssociate Film MakerMedia & Film Director — PhotographerNinja Reporter & EditorFilm crew
  • Louis BiancherinSenior Data EngineerHadoop Expert & SREEngineering
  • Portrait awaiting
    Maël RollandIndependent Researcher in Residence — Governance Research LabSocio-economist · EHESS doctorEngineering
  • Thomas IlardiFilm MakerMedia & Film DirectorNinja Reporter & EditorFilm crew
  • Oriane TranvuPhotographerNinja Reporter & EditorFilm crew
  • Mathias GarneroJunior Post-Production AssistantJunior DirectorLearning NinjaFilm crew
  • Yang WangProduction ManagerAdministration Crew SupportFinance & Project ManagementArts & friends
  • Leonid KonoleeDesign LeadUX/UI DesignerCreative Art DirectorEngineering
  • Omar SySenior Back End EngineerGno ExpertSmartcontract & Blockchain EngineerEngineering
  • Miguel VictoriaSenior Back End EngineerGno ExpertSmartcontract & Blockchain EngineerEngineering
  • Loïc 'Dadidou' ThomasFront End DeveloperReact Native / Expo.devWeb3 PadawanEngineering
  • Félix RoumagnacFilm MakerMedia & Film DirectorNinja Reporter & EditorFilm crew
  • William FerréColor Grading MasterDigital CalibratorEagle EyeFilm crew
  • Stéphane 'Fasto' ChauletArtist & PerformerLive Performance — Art TeacherFull Stack Street ArtistArts & friends
  • Alex RobieuxSound Engineer & Ears NinjaSound Design & Sound MixBeatmaker & ComposerFilm crew
  • Sakul BudhathokiSenior React Native EngineerFull Stack DeveloperPassionate HackerEngineering
  • Portrait awaiting
    DavphlaEngineering
  • Louis BonifaceProfessional Slackliner & PerformerGuinness World Record Man & ChampionCirque du Soleil · Ninja Warrior · Best TricksArts & friends
  • Pascal 'Pboy' BoyartArtist'OG' Crypto-Artistpboy-art.comArts & friends
  • Manfred TouronHacker, Artist & EntrepreneurSecurity, Strategy & Tech AuditsFounder @ Berty.tech · Co-founder @ Paris P2PEngineering
  • Mikael VallenetFull Stack DeveloperGno ExpertSmartcontract & Blockchain EngineerEngineering
  • Norman @n0izn0izSenior Full Stack DeveloperSmartcontract & Blockchain EngineerPassionate HackerEngineering
  • Maethstro.artAnonymous Creative Hacker & Code ArtistDecentralized & Onchain Bandmaethstro.artArts & friends
  • Theo ReynalD.O.P & Video OperatorExtreme Media ManWaterman & SeafarerFilm crew
  • Mélanie RollandDancer & ChoreographerDance Lessons & PerformanceCo-founder @ Pile ou France ProjectArts & friends
  • Andy Dominique Rak3D Motion Artist · Motion DesignerBased in MadagascarClients: Xbox Series · EMI RecordsFilm crew
  • Élise BotrelArt Director & Brand DesignFounder @ RudBeckie StudioBased in Paris & DubaiArts & friends
  • Terry SoCreative Director & Graphic DesignerMotion DesignerClients: Adidas · EA Sports · French Football FederationFilm crew
  • Tom VisionArt DirectorGraphic & Motion DesignerAnimation & Content ArtistFilm crew
  • Alex FouquetIndependent Film MakerSamouraï TV ContributorBased in NYC, USAFilm crew
  • Loïc 'pwnh4'Full Stack DeveloperSecurity, Web3 & Computer ScienceParis P2P Festival & Hackathon OrgEngineering
  • Sébastien 'mxs' RannouSenior Reliability EngineerSenior DevOps & Full Stack HackerMaethstro Co-founderEngineering

Governance Research Lab

Research is a hub here, not a side project.

The lab studies cooperative and distributed governance, with Maël Rolland — socio-economist, EHESS doctor — as independent researcher in residence. Its first public output is a living Cooperative & Web3 glossary: a bridge between two worlds that share values and lack a common language.

samouraiworld.github.io/gov-research-wiki ↗

Also ours

Samouraï Records

An independent music label inside the cooperative. It backs a new generation of independent artists — from acoustic to jazz, dub to techno — and its catalogue is available for films, series and advertising, including our own.

Samouraï TV ↗

Where the films live: 3.1M views, 13.1K followers.

The shop ↗

Merch, printed and shipped automatically at samourai.fun.

Contribution reports

What the coop contributed.

Measured 2026-07-30 · GitHub API

Once a year we publish what the coop contributed to the open-source ecosystems we work in. They play here — nothing loads until you press play.

2,073
pull requests
4,126
contributions
577
issues
34
public repositories
24
contributors

Counted from source repositories only — our nine public forks carry their upstreams’ entire history, which would have credited us with Trezor’s and Cosmos’s committers. Bot accounts filtered out.

Careers · 16 role profiles

The coop is always looking for new members.

On the camera side and the code side — film, motion and sound; protocols, full-stack and security; ops and content.

Work with the people who own the place.

Send the brief and the people who would do the work will read it.

Start a projecthello@samourai.coop